Panel:

Nader Dabit
Sia Karamalegos

Special Guests: Tracy Lee, Jay Phelps, and Ben Lesh

In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Tracy Lee, Jay Phelps, and Ben Lesh about RxJS and redux-observable. Tracy, Jay, and Ben are the RxJS ThisDot Media group and where they do support contracts for RxJS, staff augmentation, developer relations, and put on events. They talk about what observables are and what they are trying to solve, the most common use cases for getting started with observables, and what Promises and Async/Await are. They also touch on what they like most about RxJS, how versatile it is, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Tracy, Jay, and Ben intro
ThisDot
RxJS
What is an observable?
What problems are observables trying to solve?
JavaScript
Learn observables
Making everything functional in the library
Means of encapsulating values you want pushed at you later on
Downside to observables
Little bit of a learning curve
Most common uses for getting started with observables
Can Promises and Async/Await be mixed with observables?
What do Promises and Async/Await allow you to do?
Defer function
Await values coming in from observables
What do you like about RxJS?
Allows you to work with all different languages
RxJS is very versatile
ngrx
“Rx all the things”
What inspired you to write Redux observable?
Redux-observable
RxJS docs
Epics
And much, much more!

Links:

ThisDot
JavaScript
RxJS
ngrx
Redux
Redux-observable
RxJS docs
@ladyleet
Tracy’s GitHub
@BenLesh
Ben’s Medium
Ben’s GitHub
@_jayphelps
Jay’s GitHub
RxJS GitHub
@ThisDotLabs

Sponsors

Kendo UI
Digital Ocean
FreshBooks

Picks:

Nader

JSCamp

Sia

Sprint by Jake Knapp

Tracy

Fashionnova.com
Francesca’s

Jay

deno
applitools

Ben

react-streams
StackBlitz